What to expect post op?

My LO is going in for surgery this Friday. I am terrified. I have read through the posts about how it is like bringing a newborn home again. How long until baby starts sleeping normal again like prior to surgery? I also saw a post about weeks of uncontrollable crying? Is that due to pain? I'm so scared for what to expect when we come home :( I hate when my LO cries, it makes me feel terrible and it's worse to know I won't be able to comfort her enough to stop it. didn't anyone have a positive experience post op? As in the first month after? Our poor kids can't catch a break it seems and neither can the parent for that matter

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Hello. It took my son Alex two weeks to the day after surgery before he began sleeping through the night again. I don't want to worry you but no one warned me about this so I want to be honest with you. He was such an amazing newborn-yes, he woke up every 2-3 hours through the night but he would eat and go right back down. After surgery, which was at 4.5 months, he literraly was up all night for the first week home. I walked the floors of our home from 11 to 4 am. It was like he had collic. He would fall asleep in my arms but I COULD NOT put him down. He would scream.

I think it's from a mix of pain and then just trying to get back to normal. They spend several days of being interrupted during their sleep and being poked and prodded-it takes awhile.

I hope I didn't scare you too much. The important thing to remember is it's just for a while. They will go back to normal. All the really want is for you to snuggle them and reassure them...and maybe a little ibuprofen. Good luck to you!!

We are in the hospital now. We head home tomorrow. I don't know about sleeping at home, but he certainly isn't spending all his time crying!! If he has his Tylenol every 4hrs, he is happy for the most part.

Ha1ffu11- I had the same experience :( and now 3 weeks out from the hospital the screaming stopped about a week ago but she still won't sleep through the night. I am at a complete loss as to what to do. Now I can put her down when she falls asleep where before I couldn't, same as you, woke up screaming as soon as I put her down but she will only sleep an hour to an hour and a half tops. She's slept good ONE night since we brought her home from the surgery stay and that is it.